Sentences with phrase «of dime store»

Then in between multicolored rings and meandering «iconscapes» as he calls them, there will be a strange depiction of a dime store Jesus, Frankenstein, or the Death Star from Star Wars, all presented with the same lovingly lavish paint.

His relatable characters, real - world storylines, conversational style, and stunning graphic art have contributed immeasurably to the emergence of graphic novels from the dark ages of the dime store shelves to a powerhouse industry with much to offer the literary world.

Not exact matches

The rise of virtual currency may spell the end of the clunky nickel, the slim dime and, soonest of all, the tenacious penny (which a 2007 Desjardins study estimated costs Canada about $ 130 million annually to produce, store and move).

Salim, the grandfather of Larry and great - grandfather of Neil, emigrated from Lebanon and opened a five - and - dime store in Montreal.

By 1992, he owned 40 stores, but the five - and - dime business was dying, squashed by the advent of big - box retailers such as Wal - Mart.

Paintings should be on the walls of restaurants, in dime stores, in gas stations, in men's rooms.

The Pentecostals were fine so long as it was a modest dress, below the knees, little or no jewelry, (most of mine being the dime store variety anyway) and the same for make - up.

What if Jesus had answered John the Baptist's disciples, «Go and tell John what you see: billions of dollars are being spent on killing and destruction, and the crippled children are begging for dimes at the liquor stores and bowling alleys»?

In 1986 after collapsing in a department store in Georgetown, doctors discovered a cyst the size of a dime on his brain.

With their young, dime - store pen proving mightier than the swords in the favored Red Sox» lineup, the Indians took the lead in an ALCS that had the rare look of a drawn - out October drama

Totally agree with most of the comments here, we will be shopping at the nickel and dime store this Summer

It feels like Bradley instructors are a dime - a-dozen there are so many of them (you find signs for classes at every grocery store, library, and public forum.)

«Over the years the press would love to give their dime store psychoanalysis of our quote - unquote father and son relationship, which was all a lot of hooey,» Cuomo said.

Witness, for instance, a Cuomo administration response to DeFrancisco's criticism in late January of Cuomo tax policy: «That statement is about as real as his hairline,» sneered a Cuomo spokesman of the senator's dime - store toupee.

Cutting up two or three garments and piecing them back together to make a completely new garment was one way that I got anything «new» when I was a teenager — the other being when I would earn.75 or a dollar and go to our local dime store to buy a few yards of fabric and a pattern to make my own «new» outfit.

Most of those shirts and dresses look like G.C. Murphy and dime store (think Big Lots now) leftover rags from the 70s.

You think of all those French New Wave films by Truffaut and Godard, they were all dime - store novel adaptations that felt nothing like the source.

That two exceptionally beautiful neighbors would find themselves drawn into one another's private orbit when it became apparent that their respective spouses, perpetually «out of the country on business,» were conducting a mutual affair is a scenario tailor - made for the movies, a shopworn fiction ripped from the dusty pages of a dime - store harlequin romance.

Composed as a series of increasingly abstract non sequiturs, Ryan Gosling's directorial debut borrows the dirt - smudged suburban decay of Gummo, the macabre eroticism of Blue Velvet, the karaoke kitsch of Only God Forgives and the fuzzy Cajun colloquialism of Beasts of the Southern Wild and boils them down into a mind - boggling dime - store fantasia.

Brewer wrote and self - published three books: Rembrandt the Rocker, an illustrated parable on aging that poses as a children's book; A Yin for Change, a book of «dime - store» philosophy; and a ghost - written biography of Clarence Darrow.

Outside his tent are the sounds of laughter and of campfire sizzling and popping, of zippers yapping and outhouse doors clapping shut, the sounds slowly diminishing until the silence is punctuated only rarely by a cough, perhaps, or the long, low, wet note from a recently purchased dime - store whoopee cushion.

How many of us remember the cries against Walmart when it started coming into smaller cities and towns and the five & dimes and hardware stores were put out of business.

While other chain stores had raised prices, Woolworth hewed to the letter of its five - and dime appellation (15; cents was the top ticket west of the Mississippi).

Donations help Basile cover the cost of kitty litter, food and maintenance, and while the café does not add a dime to her bottom line, it serves both as goodwill marketing for the store and as a social hub for animal lovers.

The amount of ivermectin in the monthly prevention probably sells for a dime in the farm store bottles, so it would be nice if Target or another retailer started making their own generic, and priced it like the human generics, at 30 for $ 4.

Polish off those dime - store badges and shoot from the hip as the only bounty hunter bold enough to take on one of the meanest bastards fictionally created for a Hollywood inspired western light - gun game.

As long as you keep using Digital River to handle your online store, you'll never see a dime of my money that way.

You can have a damn good time on the PS4 without spending a dime thanks to a number of free - to - play games populating the PSN store.

First up is Richard Diebenkorn, revered as a painterly post-war master for his intricately balanced, light - drenched elegies to the West Coast, then in July we bring together some of Joseph Cornell's most remarkable «shadow boxes», assembled from dime store treasures which spoke to a yearning for distant, idealised places and times.

My family owned a chain of eight «dime stores» that were started in 1927 by my paternal grandfather.

Bentonville (population 35,000) is Alice Walton's childhood home, the location of her father Sam Walton's first five - and - dime store, and now the site of Walmart's world headquarters.

It includes embroidered organza «porch flags,» streamers made of plaster, pearls, and nail polish, and encaustic versions of dime - store Halloween masks.

Still produced over a thousand pastel works on paper during the last two decades of his life, purchasing dime store - bought, colored construction paper to serve as his uniform backgrounds, already preset in hue.

After an extended round of ponderous word - play spiced with outdated slang and dime - store novel - writing («a shapely sigh»?)

The reality of BAU is that evil oil interests needn't spend a dime convincing anyone of anything because you can't drive to the store without petrol.

Now agents who want to present offers to owners have the possibility of not getting paid appropriately.Brokerages can MLS properties with out giving true service to property owners and run things like a five and dime store.

«For this heart art, all you need are some spools of thread (vintage spools at thrift stores are generally a dime a dozen... well,.99 for a bag of 10 in most of the stores I stalk), a frame, and your glue gun.»